Discovered 1998 June 28 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.

The Memel River, whose Couronian-Latvian name means silent, dates back to the most recent glacial period. Rising near the city of Minsk, it is a major navigable river of Eastern Europe, flowing through Lithuania before empting into the Baltic Sea.

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